Coupling Up
Planning who is falling in love with each other
My characters have an annoying habit of disagreeing with me. I have stories planned out and then they walk onto the page and tell me no, they don’t want to do that.
When I wrote What Goes on Tour, I had no plans for it to become part of a series, but I was willing to write whatever my publisher wanted. I pitched them a bunch of story ideas, they chose the one that would become All that Sparkles, and said they wanted it to be a sequel to What Goes on Tour.
After some frantic brainstorming as to how I could make it work, and a genius suggestion from a friend to have Imogen make Libby’s wedding dress, the series was born.
So naturally I started thinking about the next book, and it made perfect sense that George and Piper would couple up and become the third and final book. Except both were adamant they were just friends, and in the end I had to agree with them. There just wasn’t any spark between them. So I spent quite a bit of time figuring out who they should each end up with.
Similarly when I wrote The Flanagan Sisters, it was a three book series. But Hayden walked into the story in Change of Heart and pretty much demanded his own story, so I had to invent a secret half brother just for him.
